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Protesters are marching in the rain in Jerusalem Monday evening and will arrive at the Jerusalem home of one of 16 terrorists to be freed by Israel. The demonstration is being called the “Umbrella Protest” because of the rain that began falling in Jerusalem Monday afternoon. Authorities had refused to grant a permit for the […]
The Knesset will discuss and vote on a new bill to give official kosher food inspectors powers to make sure that restaurants and other public places that are certified as kosher live up to their commitment. The Israeli media immediately labeled the supervisors the “Kashrus Police,” implying some kind of Saudi or Iranian religious goon […]
Terrorists in Hamas-controlled Gaza attacked Israel with another rocket Sunday evening, causing no injuries or damage but sending residents in the Sderot area to bomb shelters. The Color Red early warning system did not activate, but residents with mobile phones received the warning in a text message. After every rocket attack, the military eagerly states, […]
By JTA
Amid a public debate in France over an allegedly anti-Semitic gesture, French media have reproduced a photo of a man performing it outside the Toulouse school where four Jews were murdered. The photo, which was published Monday on the website of the France 3 broadcaster, shows a man wearing a shirt featuring a portrait of […]
The government will actively promote abortions by funding them for women between ages 20 and 33 if a proposal by a Health Ministry committee is accepted. Israel’s”basket” of drugs and medical treatment gives hefty discounts for citizens, and the government adds “goodies” to the basket each year. The committee that came up with this coming […]
President Shimon Peres delivered a Christian New Year’s message enthusiastically proclaiming that Israel “will continue to guarantee access to holy sites for all” in the wake of recent “price tag” attacks on Christian sites. “There is no place for violence in our society, even more so when it targets people or places of faith,” he […]
Orthodoxy have consistently been the largest group.
Saudi Arabia Commission of the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice has warned people not celebrate New Year’s Eve has warned against celebrating New Year’s Eve lest the wrath of Allah fall on them, The Commission explained that there is a Muslim religious edict banning such levity. The same force previously has banned […]
Arabs, Jews, Muslims, Europeans and Americans are well-represented.
The Lebanese army fired anti-aircraft guns on two Syrian warplanes that dropped four air-to-ground rockets on an eastern border town Monday, the Beirut Daily Star reported. There were no reports of casualties or direct hits on Syrian planes. The newspaper quoted a military source as saying that the army received orders “to fire on any warplane […]
This is not the first time PMW's documentation has been impeded by YouTube.
By Tibbi Singer
Tony Parker did the “quenelle.”
See also: Female Suicide Bomber Kills 18 in Area of 2014 Russian Winter Olympics. At least 15 people were killed and 23 wounded in an explosion on a crowded trolley bus in Volgograd, southern Russia, according to the Interfax news agency. Volgograd is on high alert today, Monday, after a female suicide bomber attacked a train […]
The protesters do not want Netanyahu to free any terrorists on Tuesday.
P eople around the station thought a plane had crashed
By JTA
A star athlete from France is facing disciplinary action for showing support for an antisemitic comedian whose shows may soon be banned by the French government. Britain’s Football Association said Saturday it was considering punishing Nicolas Anelka, a French national playing for the West Bromwich Albion soccer team, for performing, during a match, the quenelle […]
Mayor Barkat apologized to the protesters.
The terror victims association Almagor claims that on the list of terrorists to be released tomorrow are terrorists who are also Israeli citizens, according to a report in Arutz-7. The organization says this goes against the promise made to them, that at least Arab terrorists who are also Israeli citizens would be released to the […]
Eye witnesses saw 2 rockets hit near Kiryat Shmona.
One person was lightly injured after Arabs threw rocks at Egged bus #3 near the Old City of Jerusalem's Damascus Gate (Sha'ar Shechem).
By Shalom Bear
Below is a list of the 26 terrorists set to be released, and the identity of many of their victims - in the name of the "peace talks".
Israel protests the upcoming release of terrorists.
By JTA
Lithuania’s prime minister condemned a lawmaker for suggesting Jews are cheap and “are just looking to take from Lithuania.” “I judge this statement to be very negative and it doesn’t represent the party’s position,” Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius said Dec. 23, according to the news site Delfi.lt. A spokesperson for Butkevicius’ Social Democratic Party of […]
By JTA
Plumbers fixing a water leak in central Portugal discovered what appears to be a cluster of 600-year-old Jewish ritual baths. The discovery was made earlier this year in the city of Coimbra as the plumbers were replacing the piping of an old building in what used to be the Jewish part of the Old City, […]
By JTA
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urged the Obama Administration to block a new Israeli plan to build hundreds of additional homes in Jewish settlements. Israel officials have said the planned construction of new units in Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem will be announced next week, just as Israel is set to release 26 long-serving Palestinian prisoners […]
By JTA
The New York Times is conducting a survey of Hungarian Jews to help deepen its coverage of anti-Semitism in that country. The survey, published online Tuesday, asks respondents whether they experienced anti-Semitism and considered emigrating as a result, among other questions. “An openly anti-Semitic political party has gained power in Hungary’s Parliament in recent years, […]
By Shalom Bear
An Aliyah plan of this scale hasn't been attempted since the rescued of Ethiopian Jewry.
Prime Minister Netanyahu was admitted to the Hillel Yaffe medical center in Hadera on Friday night with pain in his head. The Prime Minister was treated for a sinus infection. Refuah Shleimah (get well).
An American "diplomatic initiative" is an end run around the Israeli government.
The basketball exhibition of NBA stars, which Dennis Rodman is preparing for the birthday celebration of North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un, is "an undeserved gift to a murderous tyrant," Rabbi Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center said.
A law school textbook classic example of a hate crime. In this Texas case, it was a white man "playing" the Knockout "Game" on a black victim.
The Israeli Air Force attacked two terror targets in Gaza Thursday night, a short time after terrorists in attacked the coastal area south of Ashkelon for the second time in 24 hours. Gaza sources said that the Air Force retaliation caused no injuries. The IDF stated, "A weapon manufacturing facility was targeted in the Central […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has named former Ambassador to the United Nations and certified nationalist Dore Gold as an "outside” foreign policy consultant, the office of the Prime Minister announced Thursday. Gold, born in the United States, served in the same position during Prime Minister Netanyahu’s first term of office in 1997. He will replace […]
Israel won’t make a decision to bomb Hamas to smithereens until Tel Aviv is on the receiving end of missiles, and that day is getting closer.
Moroccan officials said they have arrested more than 50 suspects in a bust on a nationwide “terrorist cell” that operated in 50 cities. The suspects included those “who have trained with terrorist organizations in the handling of various weapons and explosives,” Morocco’s interior ministry stated. One of those arrested formerly had been held on charges […]
7:48 PM Please enter your bomb shelters. Red Alert for rocket launch from Gaza to the Ashkelon Beach area. 8:00 PM Rocket landed in an open area. No inuries reported.
The second storm of the young winter is headed for Israel with more needed rain but no snow, except on the Hermon mountain. Forecasters predict that it will rain on Eilat, an event that usually occurs only two or three times a year, and that up to three inches of rain will fall in the […]
By JTA
A new non-denominational Jewish burial society has replaced an Orthodox one at a Boston-area Jewish funeral home. Community Hevra Kadisha of Greater Boston, which launched this fall and is part of a growing movement of Jewish burial societies that include non-Orthodox volunteers, began performing tahara – the ritual preparation of bodies for burial – at […]
Israel’s Supreme Court rejected Thursday evening an appeal by victims of terror to stop the government from going ahead with its plan to free another 26 terrorists on Sunday. The petitioners, whose parents and three of their brothers and sisters were murdered in a terrorist attack in Jerusalem in 2001, argued that the swap of […]
Haredi political leaders across the board called a court ruling for new elections in Beit Shemesh” corrupt,” “racist” and a sign of “dictatorship,” among other less than complimentary adjectives. The court accepted a petition by Attorney General Yehudah Weinstein that documented corruption in the voting October 22 as ground for voiding the election results, which […]
Mahmoud Abbas vehemently denied on Thursday a report by the Yediot Acharonot newspaper that his representatives have met with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s negotiator in secret back-channel talks for the past three years. The denial is not surprising, and the report by Yediot’s crack journalist Nahum Barnea also is not so spectacular. He wrote,” Attorney […]
By JTA
An American Jewish government contractor kidnapped by Al Qaeda in Pakistan again has asked the Obama administration to negotiate with his captors. Al Qaeda released a video message from Warren Weinstein, a former Peace Corps and USAID official, late Wednesday night in which he says he feels “totally abandoned and forgotten,” according to the Washington […]
A Palestinian Authority terrorist planning attacks on Israelis was arrested after seeking a permit to travel through Israel to Ramallah for medical care so that he could be in better health to murder Jews. The audacity and warped thinking of a terrorist, who plans to murder Israelis and then asks the country to help him […]
The Jewish Home party won its day in court on Thursday with an administration court ruling that the October 22 elections for the Beit Shemesh mayor and city council are invalid because of suspected fraud. The court ordered a new vote. Jewish Home mayoral candidate lost the election by 956 votes to Shas party incumbent […]
Twenty-five young Jewish tech leaders working for such leading companies as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft have arrived in Israel for a ten-day introduction to the country and to the Israeli tech scene. The visit, dubbed Taglit Tech Challenge, is a partnership between The Jewish Agency for Israel and Taglit-Birthright Israel and is part of a […]
By Tibbi Singer
Bennett: "When we stand strong, even if there are no negotiations, there is quiet."
It's going to be a long night for residents in the country's south.
The IDF reportedly killed two terrorists and foiled a large-scale terrorist attack that included the murder of an Israeli worker at the Gaza security fence on Wednesday according to Channel 10. Palestinian Authority media did not report that any terrorists were shot by Israeli fire, and a military spokeswoman told The Jewish Press it could […]
By JTA
The nephew of Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy was arrested for trespassing in a yeshiva high school in Stamford in an apparently drunken condition. Kerry Mallory, an actor who appears in the new movie “The Wolf of Wall Street,” was arrested Monday on the property of Yeshiva Bais Binyomin, along with his girlfriend Courtney Wilson. Both […]
Police have charged a man with assault and threatening to tattoo a swastika on the forehead of a woman, the Doylestown, Pennsylvania Intelligencer reported. The woman was crying in her hotel room when police arrived after having been alerted of a disturbance. She said that 33-year-old Clinten Lawrence McClain assaulted her, threatened to kill her […]
Israel will trade 26 more terrorists for between 1,000 and 2,000 new homes for Jews in Judea and Samaria, according to a government official quoted by Israeli television Wednesday. There is a broad consensus in Israel against freeing more terrorists in the four-step release plan to release 104 terrorists and security prisoners during the nine […]
News of Ostreicher’s escape from Bolivia broke Dec. 16, and little was known about the circumstances of his return to America until actor Sean Penn told the Associated Press on Dec. 18 that he was with Ostreicher following a “humanitarian operation” to free the Jewish businessman “from the corrupt prosecution and imprisonment he was suffering in Bolivia.”
On Wednesday, Dec. 25, a Turkish court rejected a claim for compensation from the state of Israel by the relatives of a man who died during the battle between Israeli soldiers and anti-Israel protesters who were attempting to breach the internationally-recognized legal blockade of Gaza. The family of Furkan Doğan, one of nine who died […]
JERUSALEM – Fearing a protracted stalemate will prompt Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to publicly blame Israel for the failure of the peace process, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will ask Secretary of State Kerry to extend the negotiating deadline of May 2014 by an additional year when Kerry returns to Jerusalem in January.
By Ben Sales
TEL AVIV – The disclosure last week that American intelligence spied on former Israeli prime ministers has given new momentum to the effort to secure a pardon for convicted spy Jonathan Pollard.
Incitement by official Palestinian Authority media is the reason for the recent surge in terrorist attacks, the office of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Wednesday. “Terrorist attacks on Israelis in the last few days are a direct result of the incitement & hatred propagated in Palestinian schools & media,” his spokesman Mark Regev tweeted. “We […]
The number of Christians enlisting in the IDF has doubled since the establishment of the Israeli Christians Recruitment Forum slightly more than year ago. According to the forum’s data, 84 Christian soldiers have enlisted since June 2013 alone, a number that not long ago was not reached in an entire year Nearly 90 Christian soldiers […]
Jesus was born a Jew more than 1,500 years before Islam appeared in the world, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said Tuesday in a mockery of Mahmoud Abbas’' annual assertion that “Jesus was a Palestinian .” Abbas wished Christians in the Palestinian Authority, which until only a few years ago harassed and attacked Christians […]
The interim government in Egypt has declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group. This step follows a massive bombing outside of a police headquarters in northern Egypt on Tuesday, Dec. 24. That car bombing took place in the northern delta city of Mansoura. At least 15 people were killed, the vast majority of whom were […]
By JTA
The IDF is returning an Iron Dome anti-missile system to the Sderot, located less than a mile from northern Gaza, in wake of the escalation of terrorist attacks from Gaza. Terrorists on Tuesday killed an Israeli citizen working for the army at the Gaza security fence, and the IDF retaliated with strikes on terror targets. […]
Pope Francis’ first Christmas message was full of hope for peace in war-torn Syria and South Sudan, the “often and overlooked” war-torn Central African Republic and - as if the chaos and mutual barbarity are comparable – for a “favorable” outcome” in talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. He made no mention of what […]
The “Champions of Jerusalem” Al Qaeda-linked terrorist cell, which calls itself Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, has claimed it was behind Tuesday's deadly suicide bombing of the police headquarters in the northern Sinai city of Mansoura. A statement by the terrorist group asserted that the attack, which killed at least 15 people, was in retaliation for Egypt’s […]
By JTA
“Please, everyone, join me, in a clear demand to our friends, the Americans."
The new railway station in rocket-battered Sderot in southern Israel now is one of the safest places in town following its opening Tuesday afternoon. The terminal was built with special reinforcements to protect passengers from Kassam rockets, thousands of which have exploded in the small city since the Oslo War, otherwise known as the Second […]
Ben Gurion University security researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability in Samsung’s highly secure software on its flagship device the Galaxy S4. The university’s Cyber Security Labs noted that the Samsun devices are based on the Knox architecture and that Samsung Knox is currently undergoing the U.S. Department of Defense approval review process. Researchers believe […]
Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party would win 14 Knesset seats if elections were held today, compared with 11 in a poll in November, according to the Hebrew-language Walla! website. The increased strength is attributed to recent bills on more rights for homosexuals that Yesh Atid has sponsored, although they not yet been passed into law. The […]
Philadelphia Federation head calls on academic institutions to resign from the American Studies Association and urges people to call on their alma maters to condemn the ASA boycott of Israel
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will deliver a speech to the Knesset during his visit to Israel next month, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein announced Wednesday. Harper will lead an entourage of approximately 200 politicians, businessmen and journalists towards late January. ‘”I am happy and proud to host the prime minister of Canada, a courageous and […]
Buffet made approximately $37 million a day this past year.
German-American non-Jewish attorney Peter Sonnenthal and his family, which has Jewish roots (his grandmother was Jewish and perished in Auschwitz) have been fighting for more than two decades to reclaim lucrative properties stolen from them under the Nazi regime, Spiegel reported, adding that Sonnenthal continues to face legal hurdles in trying to restore this legacy. […]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov believes Western politicians have started to realize that overthrowing Assad’s government might lead to a worsening of the Syrian crisis, the official Russain News agency RT reports. “The attitudes are changing in Western countries, they are becoming more realistic in their approach towards settling the Syrian crisis,” said Lavrov. “The […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A special event next week at the National Library of Israel will debut a display of ancient Jewish texts found in a cave in Afghanistan. The library purchased 29 of the discovered texts. The texts are approximately 1,000 years old and were written in either ancient Persian or Arabic. They are predominantly legal or commercial documents, except […]
By JTA
They beat a man suspected of performing the "quenelle" and locked him inside the trunk of a parked car.
By JTA
Two more American institutions of higher learning officially withdrew their memberships from the American Studies Association after its membership voted in favor of an academic boycott of Israel. Kenyon College and Indiana University on Monday joined Brandeis University and Penn State Harrisburg in canceling their memberships in the association. Dozens of other universities also have […]
By Tibbi Singer
Lapid's insistence on legislation rather than a unilateral fix by his office has actually been hurting gays.
In a last ditch attempt to block the granting of university status to Ariel College, some Israeli universities turned to the Supreme Court to block the decision. Three Supreme Court judges, including the court president ruled against the petition, stating that the process was done properly, confirming Ariel's new upgraded status. For a country that […]
Offering a summer course on hate speech that is only mentioned on its English website, is only offered in English and which focuses on "ethnic cleansing and genocide" suggests Al-Quds University is looking to score PR points but entirely unrepentant for harboring terrorist celebrations.
Shortly after 8:30 PM on Tuesday, there was a drive-by shooting in Gush Etzion at some IDF troops. The shooting took place at the junction between Maaleh Amos and Tekoa, which is east of Efrat. No one was injured in the attack.
Police Officer Rami Ravid, who was stabbed in the back at Kikar Adam yesterday has lost his kidney.
Besides the air force, the IDF used ground forces in the retaliatory attack on targets in Gaza. Tanks and infantry took part in 6 pinpoint strikes across Gaza. The targets includes a weapon's manufacturing site and other terrorist infrastructures. The IDF clarified to JewishPress.com that IDF ground forces and infantry did not physically enter into […]
The Israel Air Force attacked a Hamas training base in northern Gaza Tuesday afternoon, in retaliation for the killing of an Israeli civilian contractor working along the Gaza border. Gazan sources report that Hamas officials have evacuated their headquarters, out of fear of an Israeli retaliatory attack.
By Tibbi Singer
An email from the US Embassy in Israel…
A Gaza sniper shot an killed an Israeli civilian near the Gaza security fence.
By Shalom Bear
In their eagerness to catch a few cheating taxi drivers, did the Tax Authority destroy the reputation of a promising Israeli start-up?
One judge wondered how meat could be considered kosher, if the employees of the kosher slaughtering firm "just passed on the cows."
By JTA
Ephraim Mirvis became the first sitting British chief rabbi to address the annual Limmud conference, defying the opposition of prominent haredi Orthodox rabbis in England. Mirvis, who received a standing ovation Monday upon entering the packed auditorium at the University of Warwick, did not directly address the controversy in his session on this week’s Torah […]
Dreyfuss did not quote any source to back his allegations that Israelis support violence against illegal African.migrants.
By JTA
Rapper Kanye West told a Chicago radio station that he wants to take back the “ignorant compliment” he made about Jews last month during an interview on the New York City radio station WWPR-FM. West said, “Black people don’t have the same level of connections as Jewish people.” In an interview last week with the […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will demand from President Barack Obama that he free Jonathan Pollard from jail as a condition for the next scheduled release of Palestinian Authority terrorists, according to Israel’s Channel 2 television. The office of the Prime Minister has not commented on the report, which did not quote a specific source. Channel […]
Jews make up three of the 10 biggest gainers in net worth in 2013, as listed by Forbes. Among the Jews are Google co-founder Larry Page, whose mother was Jewish, who was raised without religion and who intermarried. The biggest jump in bank accounts was that of gambling casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, whose net worth jumped […]
Muslim Brotherhood radio statio shut down in Egypt opens in Turkey, with terrorist-supporting Imam Al-Qaradawi as its first host.
More than 300 Syrians, including at least 87 children and 30 women, have been killed in the week-long “barrel-bombing” offensive by the regime on Syrian President Bassar al-Assad, opposition sources reported. The civil war’s violence, which consistently has been reported as the worst possible, continues to defy description for its barbarity on both sides. A […]
The real hero who helped prevent mass casualties in Sunday's metropolitan Tel Aviv (Bat Yam) bus bombing was a child who told the bus driver that’s someone had left a bag on the bus, one of the passengers told President Shimon Peres Monday. The Jewish Press reported here that the bus driver, Michael Yoger, insisted […]
Two Hamas terrorists were wounded Monday afternoon in a “work accident” explosion at a training camp of one of the local terrorist organizations in the Gaza City area. Sources in Gaza said that a fire broke out after the explosion. The extent of the terrorists’ wounds are not known.
By JTA
Pollack is basketball’s ultimate numbers and public relations man.
A 27 year old terrorist was shot by the IDF a short while ago, as he was planting a bomb in Northern Gaza. Over the past few days there have been a number of attempts to plant bombs along the Gaza security fence.
The U.S. State Dept. was quick to respond to Sunday’s bus bomb terror attack in metropolitan Tel Aviv and assure Israel it has nothing to worry about because it has the back of the United States. “We strongly condemn the bombing of a bus near Tel Aviv today,” spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters. She added, […]
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israeli police exposed a drug lab in the Palestinian Authority city of Tulkarm, located on the western edge of Samaria and less than 15 miles from Netanya. A police spokesperson explained that Tulkarm was chosen as a site for the drug lab because it is not easily accessible to the Israeli Police A large force […]
Senior Palestinian Authority Saeb Erekat negotiator Saeb Erekat has dashed and ideas that the “nine-month peace talks” will be extended and told the PA’s official radio station Monday, "We turn down any extension.” Erekat said his previous remarks have been misinterpreted and clarified, "I said that if we reach an agreement on all final status […]
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